The tender for new small arms for the army and police force suffered a setback last Thursday. The public procurement dispute committee invalidated the victory of a U.S. arms manufacturer as the state failed to challenge two claims by a company that made a...

Head of the youth organization of the Conservative People’s Party (EKRE) Blue Awakening Ruuben Kaalep admitted that he knowingly engages in social media trolling using fake accounts. EKRE chairman Martin Helme does not see this as a problem.

Even though education is a matter close to the heart of Estonia 200 leader Kristina Kallas, she cannot imagine herself fighting for the post of education minister: ideas can also be realized by someone else.

Support for Estonia 200, the newly established political party that has consistently remained above the election threshold since fall of 2018, has fallen to 2 percent after the party's poster campaign in central Tallinn, it appears from the results of a survey...

Comments sections of social media sites hold entries by dozens of fake personas two of whom managed to get published by Eesti Päevaleht. Signs point to fake accounts having ties with Conservative People’s Party (EKRE) youth organization Blue Awakening.

Lauri Hussar, who announced his resignation from the post of editor-in-chief of Postimees yesterday and is set to join Estonia 200 and run for parliament in the March elections, says Priit Alamäe invited him to join the party only last week. «The decision to...

The mission of Estonia 200 is to be the party of reforms, leader of the newly established political party Kristina Kallas said at the party's pre-election convention held at Haven Kakumäe in Tallinn on Sunday.

Facebook has set about deleting the fake accounts behind the factious Estoners group Postimees shed light on two weeks ago. But the dragon has many heads: dubious social media profiles already number around one hundred.

The Center Party announced with pride in October of last year how the party will automatically evict members with criminal punishments in the future. Just a few months later, the prime minister’s party has seen new members include the most criminals.

The rating of the Estonian opposition Reform Party, after falling by a third last year, exhibited an upward spike in January and now exceeds support for the coalition Center Party by 1.1 percentage points, it appears from a survey commissioned by BNS and...

Former top centrist Evelyn Sepp admitted that she donated money the origin of which was unknown to her to the Center Party in 2006. The former politician claimed other members also engaged in the practice but refused to name names.

The last decade of the previous century was a difficult time for many, both financially and personally, and the 1990s can be described as the golden age of prostitution in Estonia. If today, it is believed there are around 300 active prostitutes in Estonia,...

According to the state budget, the interior ministry plans to collect €17 million in fines this year. Planned fines revenue has never grown so abruptly from one year to the next as the state is looking to collect an additional €3 million in fines compared...

Yesterday saw a series of provocative posters put up in the Hobujaama tram stop in downtown Tallinn that urged Estonians and Russians to side with their own at upcoming elections. Estonia 200 is the only political party that did not deny ties to the posters.

The Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications has for the time being dropped the plan to build a bypass railway of Tallinn for an estimated 112 million euros, finding that there is no need for such railway.

Estonia planned to refit cheap CV90 chassis procured from Norway as support armored vehicles for the Scouts Battalion but finds itself victim to the monopoly of a major manufacturer. The tender was written off on the last day of the year, support vehicles will...

While most of the «old», western EU members states were following their soft security instincts and were preoccupied by the forthcoming Katowice (climate) and Marrakesh (migration) summits, the «new», eastern member states were, once again, unpleasantly...

On Wednesday of the week before Christmas, when the attention of the media was captivated by the detention of suspects in the Danske Bank money laundering criminal investigation, the Propastop blog published a post concerning fake news circulated in social...

Estonia’s wish to leave the Russian power system gives the latter the opportunity to charge its neighbor millions for regulation of frequency as transmission network operator Elering estimates it would cost Estonia up to €30 million a year to ensure equal...

Even though alleged participants of the Danske money laundering affair detained earlier this week have so far kept from commenting on suspicions, the first details are beginning to swim to the surface. One client manager is believed to have earned hundreds of...

The prosecution broke down one of the defensive walls of Danske money launderers yesterday when it brought suspicions against the bank’s former foreign client managers and their head. Six former Danske Estonia employees were detained on Tuesday and four more...

The European Union cannot replace NATO not only because 80 percent of allied defense spending will come from outside the union after Brexit, but also for geographical reasons, Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg told Postimees in an interview Monday.

The ten persons detained in connection with alleged money laundering at the Estonian branch of Danske Bank mostly worked as relationship managers and all of them are accused of money laundering; the amount of dirty money being spoken about totals 300 million...

Four years ago, two engineers were given a pencil and paper and set about fleshing out Milrem’s unmanned ground vehicle. Today, the company is working with the top dogs of the defense industry. Milrem’s THeMIS is a European favorite and is being tested by...

The Reform Party, after spending months at the top of party ratings, has lost six points since November and hands the lead to the ruling Center Party in December. The Conservative People’s Party (EKRE) and Pro Patria have both gained around 3 points since...

A construction cartel that was paid millions by the North Estonia Regional Hospital (PERH) was only fined a few thousand euros for illegal practices and continues to perform contracts for the hospital.

Eighteen members of parliament have created a support group for the movement Estonia 200 Memory Bank. MPs say the aim of the initiative is to protect a cultural trademark a recently created party uses as its name.

Merike Saks, who has worked at the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications for over 15 years and served as its secretary general for the past four, had been thinking about giving up the life of a public servant for some time.

Several months and several rejections later, Abkhazia resident Alli Rutto has reason to be pleased – officials have thought of a way to renew her expired passport. Her son can pick up Rutto’s passport this week.

The patience of many of the capital’s homeowners is wearing thin as a prolonged and complicate dispute has still not managed to determine how much a cubic meter of water should cost in Tallinn. Water utility Tallinna Vesi AS could be looking at a lawsuit.

The Tax and Customs Board (MTA) and accommodation online marketplace Airbnb have signed an agreement that will see the latter make it possible for renters to conveniently share their income with the board that will then be added to people’s income tax...

Even though terrorism threat level remains low in Estonia, terrorist propaganda posts have made their way onto Estonian sites. To combat this kind of content, the European Commission wants to pass regulation that would order administrators to remove...

Tallinn city government finds that it is not reasonable to relocate the Tallinn Bus Station to the Ülemiste district near Tallinn Airport and that it should be left in its current location on Lastekodu Street.

The Ministry of the Interior has proposed the creation of a fund to help Estonia prepare for serious crises. Secretary General Lauri Lugna says that the proposal does not mean the ministry is expecting a particular crisis but admits that the likelihood of...

The Estonian Ministry of Finance has received a request for a national designated spatial plan from FinEst Bay Area Development, a company working on a project to build an undersea tunnel between the capitals of Estonia and Finland, and will analyze whether...

Prosecutor in Edgar Savisaar’s corruption trial Steven-Hristo Evestus (40) announced yesterday that he plans to resign and leave the prosecution. December 31 will mark the last day in Evestus’ career in the prosecution that has lasted for over 16 years.